The Renegade

Ran to Black Hawk park through the river trail. I was feeling okay until my heartrate spiked a ton so I felt week for more then half the run. Ended up getting dropped bigtime by the guys. It's okay tho.

Well I got dropped again today for teh same reason but whatev. We went canal trail/canyon road. This time we actually had a pack going so its too bad I couldn't keep up. S/O to my little brother for actually showing up to practice today, it was fun doing strides with him. 

We did a tiny workout today it was fun. Basically a pseudo time trial, a mile tempo not all out. We warmed up to Willow and did it where we did reps last season. In the faster group was Damon, Keith, Collin and Me, I wish the whole varsity was there. Damon and I ran low 5:50, and I'll admit that felt like the opening of a 5K so faster than tempo, but I think  we were supposed to go faster anyways. I felt relaxed through all of it. Then I ran a 5 mile cooldown with Strand, along with a 400 when I got back to the school, ran it in 69 seconds, so fastest 400 since the 4x800 at region. 

Heat run today. I felt weird, like dehydrated but a weird type.... I dunno. Just wasn't on top of it. I was planning on going 7 but I decided not to. Ran to Canyon Rd. and back basically. Said this on my strava post to but man I'm glad some people were watering their lawns. In the last half mile I turned up to like sub-6 pace (finishing effort) for the 15K on saturday. It kind of hurt but it did bring my last mile to a 6:40. 7:27 avg tho so it was pretty polarized. 

Shake out run to willow park. 7:41 avg.

Great race today. Started off with Isaac and Angel, Angel fell back after like two miles, then I stuck with Isaac who was doing a good job at keeping the pace up, and at about mile 4 he started to drop me so I spent the next mile catching up. Miles 5 and 6 went by fast, and then we hit the hill. Isaac pushed it and started to drop me again, and then he started barfing. So I went on and still felt pretty good after that hill. Then I passed this ultra runner dude who we were chatting with earlier in the race, and Daniel Olsen. I saw Mandy Ashcroft up ahead and thought I could catch her but then my heartrate blew up and the last 1.3 was a real grind. Isaac caught up about 300m before the finish and we finished right next to each other, I only beat him by .02 or something. So I didn't get my sub-60 goal but that's alright, this was still a big confidence booster knowing I can push it as hard as I did for 9 miles. And Strava says I burned 1,111 calories lol, plus it says I have the fastest overall time for the Hydropark to Hollow road segment in 2015 (cuz they haven't held a race there yet this year and anyone who finished ahead of me hasn't uploaded their run) but it's cool.